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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 24</span><span class="fp-text">LA GRENOUILLE ÉCLATÉE ET LE BŒUF</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XXIV</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n78/mode/1up">p.15</a>]</span> RANA RUPTA ET BOS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le petit se perd à vouloir imiter les grands.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Inops potentem dum vult imitari perit.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une grenouille vit un Bœuf dans une prairie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Jalouse d'une taille si belle,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle gonfle sa peau ridée ; puis demande à ses petits</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si elle n'est pas plus grosse que le Bœuf.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ils lui disent que non. De nouveau elle s'enfle,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">fait plus d'efforts, et demande encore</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui est le plus gros. Ils répondent&nbsp;: «&nbsp;C'est le Bœuf.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Enfin, de dépit, elle veut</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se gonfler encore, mais son corps crève, et elle périt.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In prato <span class="fp-correction" title="quodam  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quondam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quondam  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quodam</span></span> rana conspexit bovem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et tacta invidia <span class="fp-correction" title="tante  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">tantae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="tantae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">tante</span></span> magnitudinis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">rugosam inflavit pellem ; tum natos suos</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">interrogavit an bove esset latior.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Illi negarunt. Rursus intendit cutem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">majore nisu et simili <span class="fp-correction" title="quesivit  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaesivit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaesivit  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quesivit</span></span> modo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quis major esset. Illi dixerunt bovem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Novissime indignata dum vult validius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">inflare sese, rupto jacuit corpore.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Grenouille_qui_se_veut_faire_aussi_grosse_que_le_B%C5%93uf">La Grenouille qui se veut faire aussi grosse que le Bœuf</a></div>
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